在東海之滨的浙江省台州市三门县，与文化沾点关系的人都认识葛敏。黝黑的皮肤、长头发、大胡子，一看就让人感受到一股艺术气息，因此只要你见过他一面，就会留下深刻印象。
　　葛敏，1962年出生，现任县文化馆副馆长，国家高级摄影师。他从事文化工作已30余年，油画作品曾多次在省﹑市获奖展出，特别是风景油画深得书画爱好者的喜爱。
　　作为画家，葛敏主攻油画，题材包括石子路、稻秆蓬、田园、古民居等乡土系列，所以曾有人称他为“草根斋人”。葛敏对乡土文化的热爱是深入骨髓的，一方家山、一片故水、一条乡路、一座古宅，乃至于一扇石窗、一口古井、一孔拱桥，都会使他双目放光，眼睛射出七彩的颜色，就像一位饿极了的人，忽然看见可口的食物，便自然而然地失态了。那种源于血脉相承的热爱，是长期受传统文化浸润的结果。
　　葛敏用颜色来描绘天地间的大美。山乡古朴的家园、宁静的田野、港汊芦丛中的小舟、牧归的老人、异乡的少女……既透出校园歌曲般的清纯与美丽，又透出土地般的凝重与厚实。那种褪去浮躁的心灵，是经年静悟与累积的结果，聚沙成塔，积水成河。他还是个虔诚的表述者，总是用个性的颜色表述着一片土地的安详与宁静以及过往的记忆，表述着消逝与新生之间那段经历心痛的珍惜，表述着心中难以割舍的情怀。《春梦》《夏艳》《秋韵》《大地》等系列作品袒露的大地艺术，给人以回归自然的震撼力，以时序变化为主线，以黄、绿、灰等大色块为主基调，浓墨重彩地描绘了一幅幅山乡美景图，农耕文明铺展的美丽，恍如世外桃源。
　　然而，这片土地承载着葛敏太多的心灵重负，他像一位深谙农事的耕耘者，在赋予他生命和灵感的土地上，踽踽前行。这是他向往和流连的土地，《村口》《老家》《静静的古巷》《远去的岁月》等反映乡村民居的系列作品，所折射出的厚重的历史沧桑感，在体现美、礼赞美的同时，更多的是作者主动承担的那份责任。人类在创造美、创造幸福、创造家园的同时，另一些美、另一些幸福、另一些家园却正逐渐远离我们的视线，走向消亡。葛敏寻找的是人类共同的心灵家园，将内心的萌动寄托于真实的具象，向人们传递先民的智慧、追求、向往。这种情愫在《远去的岁月》中表现得尤为强烈。一条典型的浙东三门湾乡村古巷，石路、灰墙、黑瓦、斗檐、石花窗、隐约的远山，斑驳的岁月仿佛瞬间凝固，悠长悠长的村巷，在心灵中永恒定格。
　　作为一个摄影家，灵魂渴望漂泊，葛敏总行走在异乡的土地上，而所有的疲惫、孤独、痛苦、迷茫也随风而散。他说，摄影与作画息息相关。他用摄影服务绘画，又将自己对于色彩的独特表现形式运用于摄影之中。在异域他乡，基于对生活生命的思考，葛敏作品中的人物也更有针对性，艰难中透出乐观、豁达。阿婆、阿爷脸上岁月的刻痕，仿佛一本厚重的史书；孩子的眼睛充满向往和渴望。幸福是内心的富有，是心灵沃土上蓬勃生长的庄稼，哪怕是一片青稞，一垄土豆，几棵迎阳生长的向日葵，都会使人喜悦无比。外表粗犷、内心细致的葛敏像一位哲人，用思想捕捉天地间的大美、人世间的大爱。他的30多幅摄影作品曾获得各种奖项并在各大报纸、杂志发表，其中，《彝族老人》获十一届全国人像摄影优秀奖，《佛的传说》等4幅作品在《人民文学》杂志上发表。
　　Ge Min， born in 1962， is a celebrity in Sanmen， a coastal county in eastern Zhejiang. He looks unmistakably like an artist： swarthy， long-haired， bearded. His is a face hart to forget.
　　A member of the province’s photographers association and artists’ association， Ge serves as a vice curator of the county’s cultural center. In arts for over 30 years， he has won many awards for his oil painting artworks at the provincial and municipal art shows. His landscapes are widely loved and in private collections.
　　As a native artist with a passion for the scenery of his birthplace， Ge Min paints local scenes and objects in his artworks： gravel roads， rice straw stacks， farmlands， ancient houses. The artist has done systematic studies of these images. He is constantly inspired by so many things in his homeland： hills， rivers， country roads， ancient residences， stone windows， ancient village wells， arched stone bridges. 　　Ge Min is good at using colors in his oil painting. In vivid colors does he paint villages， serene farmlands， boats sailing in rivers flanked by reeds， herdsmen coming home at dusk， and girls who are away from home. The colors from his brush pens are pure and ethereal as well as solid and substantial. He is a sincere narrator who spares no efforts to bring back the beloved past of the homeland in his personal memory. Things that have vanished make him regret how time flies and stir his sentiments. He has painted a number of series， respectively named ， ， ， and ， to reveal a past in his memory. The beautiful Shangri-La in his retouched memory and imagination portrays a world that existed no more.
　　And he isn’t contented with painting an overall picture of a past in his memory. He explores details： entrances to villages， home villages， quiet village lanes， and years long gone are names of his series of rural villages and houses. He believes it is his responsibility to keep the memory alive. The message he wants to deliver is that we need to look back constantly in our pursuit of happiness and beauty in future. He wants people to pause for a while and wonder whether we are sure that the past really has nothing to offer for our future.
　　Ge Min has firmly established himself as a photographer. If he paints real or imagined landscape in oil artworks， he as a photographer focuses largely upon people. He travels and takes photographs and gets himself distracted from the agony， solitude， and confusion that may try to bring him down now and then. As an artist， he considers taking photographs equal to painting. In many cases， he lets his photos work for his painting. And in other cases， he lets his understanding of painting into taking a photo. In the deeply wrinkled faces of old people， the viewer can read how time elapses and how history grinds slowly. In the innocent eyes of children， the viewer can feel the pulsating longing and happiness. And Ge Min never misses opportunities to photograph details of a landscape that attracts his attention. In his landscape photos， a farmland of highland barley， a ridge of potato crop， a number of sunflowers， look delightful. Like a philosopher with a wild look and sensitivity in his heart， he captures beauty and love in his photos. Over 30 photos of his have won awards and got printed in newspapers and magazines.